THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, January 14, 1964
BATTALION EDITORIALS
A Fine Machine
The word was out last week that Shelby Metcalf had a
pretty good roundball machine playing for him. Last Sat
urday afternoon thousands had a golden opportunity to see
the word become action. And the best part of it all was that
several thousand University of Texas fans had ringside seats
for the affair.
It doesn’t take a sports authority to recognize the fact
that the Aggie basketball team has been rounded into a
smooth, competent and cool group of athletes that are hell
bent on a Southwest Conference championship this year.
Congratulations on the fast come-on you have made so
far this year and the best of luck to you in the future. We’ll
see you in Houston on Jan. 28 against U of H and then on
Feb. 1, when you beat the feathers off the Rice birds and add
one more to the conference record.
Someone’s Kidding
About These Wars
The frequent use of the term “cold war” almost sounds
like laughter being directed at the thousands of American
fighting men who are facing the hottest kind of wars—the
kind that kill.
There are few occassions when a person can sit through
a 30 minute news show on either radio or television, or read
the front page of any metropolitan newspaper without seeing
references to the cold war. On that same page or during that
same program he can also read or hear anywhere from two
to six stories based on very hot wars. The one big issue that
so many American people seem to be overlooking everyday
is that those little “brushfire wars” involve more that “those
people over there.” They also involve these people over here.
They involve us. And everytime another American is killed
in Viet Nam or any other part of the world we become more
deeply involved and the brushfire grows hotter.
It’s about time we stop kidding ourselves. We’re not in
volved in a cold war. We’re in the big middle of a hot war,
a real hot war.
It appears that people have decided that there can be
no complete peace for the American people. If we have
accepted as fact that some of the United States of America’s
fighting men must be under fire somewhere in the world then
let’s quit doping our consciences with the cold war serum.
Maybe, just maybe, if we lay out cards on the table and
call the clubs clubs. We might just see how big our club is
and we could certainly let others get a look at our hand.
We’ve gbt a lot of chips in a lot of pots. The U. S. sits
at the world table as the big winner so we can’t fold. The
only thing for us to do is start playing an all-out game to
bring the entire pot home.
Bulletin Board
TUESDAY
The Association of Graduate
Student Wives will meet at 8
p.m. on the second floor of the
Richard Coke Building. Dr. Chris
tiansen will be the speaker.
Pre-Med Pre-Dent Society will
meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 113 of
the Biological Science Building.
Soil and Crop Sciences Student
Wives Club will meet at the
Bryan Sewing Machine Company,
3515 Texas Ave., at 7:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
BahaT World Faith will spon
sor a discussion in the Ander
son Room of the YMCA Build
ing at 7:30 p.m.
THURSDAY
Hometown Clubs
Corpus Christi will meet in the
Lobby of the Memorial Student
Center at 7:20 p.m.
Laredo will meet at 8 p.m. in
front of the Memorial Student
Center.
Wichita Falls will meet in the
Biological Sciences Building at
7:30 p.m.
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DAN LOUIS JR EDITOR
Ronnie Fann Managing Editor
Glenn Dromgoole, John Wright News Editors
Jim Butler Sports Editor
Marvin Schultz Asst. Sports Editor
Mike Reynolds, Robert Sims, Bob Shulz Staff Writers
Herky Killingsworth Photographer
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle U. S. Court
Rules Twice
WASHINGTON (A>) _ The Su
preme Court has outlawed any
requirement that ballots in an
election indicate the candidate’s
race.
The court Monday unanimous
ly struck down a Louisiana stat
ute which required a racial la
bel on names of candidates for
all elective officers in the state.
Justice Tom C. Clark, speak
ing for the court, said:
“By placing a racial label on
a candidate at the most crucial
stage in the electoral process-
the instant before a vote is cast
—the state furnishes a vehicle
by which racial prejudice may
be so aroused as to operate
against one group because of
race and for another.”
The high tribunal also agreed
to rule on a protest that At
lanta’s grade-a-year school de
segregation, which is taking 12
years to carry out, does not com
ply with the Supreme Court’s
mandate for integration with “all
deliberate speed.”
WRIGHT
by John Wright
Violent incidents around the
world have over shadowed prob
ably the most important event
on the international scene today
— the negotiations between rep
resentatives of West Berlin and
East Berlin. It cannot be deni
ed that considerable emotional
intensity lies at the back of the
negotiations, for the presence of
the Berlin Wall has forced emo
tions of separated loved ones to
reach a fever pitch intensity.
Willie Brandt, mayor of West
Berlin, has stated that the nego
tiations between the West Ber
lin Senate and members of the
East German regime were not a
party political affair, nor did
they imply a change of policy.
The permit agreement that al
lowed almost a million West Ger
mans to visit East Berlin, was
according to Brandt, a matter of
common German concern.
AGGIE PLAYERS
(Continued from Page 1)
. You don’t look like you should be cold!”
Smokers May Get
Liberal Education
WASHINGTON (A>) — A mas
sive educational program aimed
at smokers — and teenagers who
haven’t started — may be the
first federal step following a sci
ence panel’s indictment of cig
arette smoking as a threat to
life and health.
A panel of 10 doctors and sci
entists reported to the surgeon
general Saturday that heavy
cigarette smoking is a major
cause of lung cancer and is as
sociated, at least statistically,
with other malignancies and
heart ailments. The committee
called for “appropriate remedi
al action.”
Informed sources said Monday
that the most obvious first step
would be a government-backed
campaign against smoking, pat
terned after the all-out effort
made by the Public Health Serv
ice to get Americans vaccinated
The campaign would be in ad
dition to possible action by the
Federal Trade Commission and
Congress.
Sources said the FTC believes
it has authority to require that
cigarette packages bear health
hazard labels — if the health
service so recommends.
There were no indications that
Congress would seek prohibition
of cigarettes. But several mem
bers introduced or seconded
bills requiring that cigarettes
life attempt is simply not as good
as the original.
THE PLAY IS A STUDY in hu-
at m 11:1311 traits and emotion. Doing
sWM *\r W W'. outstanding work for the Players
J. vJL W US in portraying this emotion were
David White, Judith Nobles, Lee
Hance, Paul Bleau, Bob Hipp and
Rhea Smith. White is the self-
centered, intellectual father, Judith
Nobles the arrogant step-daughter,
carry labels that they might in- a nd Lee Hance the grief-stricken
jure health. mother.
The campaign would be aimed Bleau played the part of the os-
The latest reports indicate that
Walter Ulbricht’s trip to Mos
cow was made for the purpose
of co-ordinating East German and
Soviet terms for reaching an
agreement with West Berlin au
thorities.
primarily at teen-agers, with a
theme somewhat along these
lines: “Quit if you are a cig
arette smoker — don’t start if
you haven’t.”
tentatious manager-director of the
company. Hipp was his leading
man, and Rhea Smith the leading
lady.
Presented in three acts, the play
Presumably, such a campaign had its points of high emotion, but
would include use of newspaper, it also has its moments of what
radio and television; speeches might be considered sermonizing,
by health authorities; and post- However, it was apparent from the
ers and pamphlets. There might conversations that took place dur-
be testimonials by sports fig- ing intermission that it was a chal-
ures who never smoked or who lenge readily taken by the audi-
had quit. ence.
Russia desires to form a three
part Germany consisting of the
independant states of West Ber
lin, East Germany and West Ger
many. Now this very policy of
the Soviets has been vigorously
opposed by West Germany ever
since the Bonn Basic Law went
into effect. The aim of the West
Germans is eventual total unifi
cation of all of Germany. This
unification desire on the part of
West Germany also includes the
lands East of the Oder-Neisse.
This area was given to Poland
and taken over by the Soviets in
1945.
The question is, just how far
are the West Germans willing to
go in an effort to bring the
dream of unification closer ?
With Ulbricht conferring with
Moscow and Brandt with Erhard,
CIVILIAN
YEARBOOK PORTRAIT
SCHEDULE
Civilian Students will have
their portrait made for the “Ag-
gieland ’64” according to the
following schedule. Portraits
will be made at the Aggieland
Studio, between 8 AM and 5
PM on the days scheduled. TIES
AND COATS SHOULD BE
WORN.
NOTE: JANUARY GRAD
UATES should have their por
trait made before leaving school,
disregarding any conflict in
schedule dates.
CIVILIAN SENIORS AND
GRADUATE STUDENTS
January 9-10 A-D (surname)
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15-16 K-P
20-21 Q-T
22-23 U-Z
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AND JUNIORS
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11-12 L-R
13-14 S-Z
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one realizes that in actuality we
are witnessing a “back door ap.
proach” between West Germany
and the Soviet Union.
Regardless of the soothing re-
marks of Willie Brandt and Lud
wig Erhard that they will not
trade “humanity for political
blackmail,” the very willingness
of the West and East Germans to
prolong negotiations past tke
charitable Yuletide season, in-
dicates that we may well be on
the verge of a new era in East
West tactics.
Let us hope that West German
politicians do not succumb to ths
temptation of using people’s emo
tions and the issue of the wall
as a political football.
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